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Print to a specific printer
You are allowed up to 99 different printer definitions for each
company.
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When you
select Printer
, a list of the printers that
were defined via System Manager is displayed for you to
choose from.
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From this list,
select the printer to which the report should be sent.
To send your report to the first printer on the displayed
list, just press <Enter> .
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Note:
Windows systems also have the added feature of
previewing and optionally searching for a field value
in the report before printing with the API
functionality.
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View the report to screen
The View menu heading is enabled allowing you to move within the report
from the menu or use the shortcuts.
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For
15" monitors, you see the left 80 characters of your report
and the first 1/3 or so of each report page when you select
Screen.
Seventeen inch or more monitors (windows only) may be defined
for a wider view.
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Use shortcuts to
move directly
from the left to the right side of the report, forward and
back one screen at a time, or go immediately to the first or
last page of the report.
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When you've seen what you needed, use the "Abort"
shortcut to return to the menu.
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Print to the
system
queue
Frequently used when you're having hardware
dificulty.
Very helpful
for reports difficult to reproduce such as posting
registers.
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Send your report to the
Down To Earth print Queue to be printed at a future point
in
time.
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This
option is also helpful when you want to print more than one copy of the
same report.
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You can access the Down
To Earth queue listing from any application via the
Queued
reports selection of the Reports menu column.
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Your
operator ID definition controls whether you have access
to All
queued reports, your
Company's
reports, or just the reports queued by
the User
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Print data to an ascii text file
Easily allows you to export report data for
import into a third party software.
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Choose Text
File, to create your
report in a flat, ascii text file
format.
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The
data is written in the form of the report, to your system's
designated storage drive.
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Enter a
filename to have a file automatically created in the current working
directory or you can specify an entire path to send the file to a
different directory.
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For
example:
RPT:vendlist.rpt
~ or ~
c:\mydocu~1\vendlist.rpt
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